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NASA's Jessica Meir spotted the Lyrids from aboard the space station.

NASA rolled the Artemis 3 core stage out from the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Monday (April 20). The next stop is the launch site: Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

A half moon passes close to Jupiter on April 22, creating a striking scene.

'I'm honored to be a part of the team continuing this adventure for a new generation of Starfighters, both young and old.'

These global night sky cams let you hunt for Lyrids from the comfort of your own home.

It turns out that living in space can have a lasting impact on how your brain works, researchers have found.

A huge geological structure on Mars resembling a bathtub ring may be evidence of an ocean that once covered a third of the Red Planet.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 25 Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Station in California on April 19. The mission featured the 600th landing of a Falcon first stage.

NASA engineers have shut down another instrument on Voyager 1 to preserve the power of the most distant spacecraft ever sent into space.

NASA's Curiosity rover has found a diverse mix of organic molecules on Mars, including chemicals considered building blocks for the origin of life on Earth.

The heat shield on Artemis 2's Orion capsule appears to have held up incredibly well during its scorching downward trip through Earth's atmosphere, mission commander Reid Wiseman said.

Fast solar wind could spark geomagnetic storms tonight, pushing auroras into mid-latitudes.

Hubble images never fail to amaze.

How do "For All Mankind"'s six decades of space exploration "history" compare with the real thing?

The size of waves on alien worlds will depend as much on the characteristics of the liquid as well as the gravity.

The new moon is the perfect time to spot faint constellations, galaxies and a quartet of planets in the dawn sky.

Two different ways to tell the same story.

Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket launched into space for the third time ever Sunday morning (April 19) — but, in a first for the company, it soared into orbit powered by a previously flown booster.

SpaceX will launch Europe's life-hunting Rosalind Franklin rover toward Mars in 2028 — but not aboard the company's Starship megarocket.

Look out for earthshine on the crescent moon as it shines near Venus and the 1,000-strong Pleiades star cluster.

On Episode 206 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Dr. Brianne Suldovsky of Portland State University to discuss what happens after the discovery of an alien life form.